Keita Miyazaki's sculptures feature materials whose association suggests strident discord and unfamiliar visual language. Discarded car engine components are welded together and then combined with coloured origami-like folded paper and sewn felt, fashioning sculptures of contradiction and aesthetic intrigue. An element of sound inspired by the jingles found in Japanese supermarkets and metro stations is often incorporated through small speakers echoing the cacophonic persistence of city life and the banalisation of daily existence. The juxtaposing of solid and universal materials such as metal against light and fragile paper and felt, escape formal paradigms, rather evoking a sense of post-apocalyptic reconciliation. Signalling a formal departure from his hybrid biomorphic sculptures.
Read MoreKeita Miyazaki (b. 1983, Tokyo, Japan) lives and works between Tokyo and London.
Miyazaki studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan (2013-2015) and at the Royal College of Art, UK (2011- 2013). He also completed a PhD in craft metal casting in Tokyo. During the summer 2017 Miyazaki was the selected Artist in of the Vannucci Artist Residency in Citta della Pieve (Italy). His work has been presented in numerous shows in UK and Japan, including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Daiwa Foundation in London. In 2015 a monumental work by Miyazaki was selected for Sculpture in the City exhibition in London. His works were presented in the exhibition 'After the Deluge', at Palazzo Sant'Apollonia during the Venice Biennale 2017. In July 2018 he presented his works at Galleria le Prigioni, Treviso, part of the Benetton Collection. Miyazaki's works were exhibited in the Palais De Tokyo in June 2018 as part of the exhibition 'Childhood | Another Banana Day for the Dream Fish'.
His works are part of numerous private collections in the UK, Japan, USA, Switzerland and UAE. Museum and corporate collections include; Daiwa Foundation, Mori Arts Centre Japan, Aoyama Spiral Hall Japan, Ogi Kankou Ltd, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture Japan, Mortimer Collection London.
